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Psychiatric patients at the emergency department: factors associated with length of stay and likelihood of hospitalization: comment

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    Jacopo Davide Giamello

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Santa Croce E Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy

    Jacopo Davide Giamello, Alberto Grosso, Gabriele Panero, Mauro Giraudo & Giuseppe Lauria

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Giamello, J.D., Grosso, A., Panero, G. et al. Psychiatric patients at the emergency department: factors associated with length of stay and likelihood of hospitalization: comment. Intern Emerg Med 18, 333–335 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-022-03115-5

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